Accountability can’t be denied

Wednesday

Aug 14, 2013 at 12:01 AM

Contrary to Mr. Pages assertion that I blame greedy retirees for Detroit’s problems in a recent LTE, the elected tax and spend liberals financing corruption and a failed social engineering model are the takers in charge.

Contrary to Mr. Pages assertion that I blame greedy retirees for Detroit’s problems in a recent LTE, the elected tax and spend liberals financing corruption and a failed social engineering model are the takers in charge. Who but liberal Democrats have run the city since 1961? Is there skyrocketing poverty, murder rates, unemployment, illiteracy and school dropout rate, and the overall deterioration of the city and unfunded pension liabilities?
Cheboygan County Democratic Chair Page, denies that his ideological counterparts are in large part responsible for the problems Detroit is experiencing. As is typical, Page blames Bush, Reagan, and Republicans. What have the Democratic leaders done to follow a balance sheet and implement business friendly policies to manage the changes they experienced? If you follow Pages reasoning, why hasn’t competition broken the budgets and overall wellbeing of every city in the country? After all, competition exists outside of the auto industry. What has made and kept Detroit so non-competitive and unattractive?
Simply stated, a half century of evidence revealing defective leadership without solutions made their Model City what it is today. The masters (or masterminds) are officials elected time after time, promising prosperity at the hand of bloated government. The slaves are those who believe it, which is a serious problem. If our county government goes broke, eyes should be fixed on those in charge, because accountability rests where it is due.
Brian Fullford
Indian River